Hi again! Katerina Karlsson (is your name right?) asked if anyone had any idea about what 'The Boy with...' meant. I was just about to ask exactly the same when I read her posting, and have been thinking about the issue these two latter days without achieving any results, must be said. All those references about 'prison', 'smoke and squalor is not your style' ..etc are enough to feel inmersed in a sordid underworld from our heroine struggles to escape .But in the end, she is lying in bed with this non scrupled , filthy guy again, because she gives up and regards there is no anyone different for her.But the lines about speaking out what troubles your mind make me strayed, and I am afraid my trying is totally useless. Sorry K.K. ! your dream about the doll was lovely, I would like to have dreams like that... However I believe I had some B&S dream tonight, and I could remember it when opened my eyes, but now I just have the impression.It's quite likely as I was too excited and nervous, couldn't sleep, though my eyes were so tired of reading 'Birthday Letters' by Ted Hughes, and I was listening to Tigermilk (that I had just been given yesterday evening by our own laureate poet Robin Stout) and the Radio Sessions like four times. By the way, there is a poem in 'Birthday Letters' about a fox, which was offered by some travelling seller to the Hugheses in a London tube station. Sylvia wanted to get it and Ted, always playing the sensible role of they two, refused, thinking of how much of a hassle it would be to bring up a fox cub in a flat in London ,with two kids, and Sylvia was hugely dissappointed. The fox cub is transfigured in a metaphora of their so different ideas about life, and Hughes reflects upon the fact if he could have saved her if he had handed over a little, if he had bought her the beautiful fox with hazel, smirky eyes, everything could have still changed So, yes, probably foxes work well as symbol of harassed, isolated people in trouble with themselves and because of that bringing trouble to another ones. Sorry for this long and melancholic message. I would like to do something pretty, but I wonder if I still can Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+